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ARM: 8256/1: driver coamba: add device binding path 'driver_override'
authorAntonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:15:11 +0000 (11:15 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:23:15 +0000 (10:23 +0000)
As already demonstrated with PCI [1] and the platform bus [2], a
driver_override property in sysfs can be used to bypass the id
matching of a device to a AMBA driver. This can be used by VFIO to
bind to any AMBA device requested by the user.

[1] http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/28030441-pci-introduce-new-device-binding-path-using-pci_dev-driver_override.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00382.html

Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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